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Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Short but gorgeous
No new pics but three days of truncated runs, two in the sculpture park and one out on the snowmo trail.
For some reason the type in the dashboard here is tiny, so I'm not going to say much ... The loops in the park were great, and there were several visitors in there even at an early hour (7:30-ish). Replenished the brochure supply (was down to one after one day!).
All the trots were about two miles, so ...
6; 6; 6; 18
For some reason the type in the dashboard here is tiny, so I'm not going to say much ... The loops in the park were great, and there were several visitors in there even at an early hour (7:30-ish). Replenished the brochure supply (was down to one after one day!).
All the trots were about two miles, so ...
6; 6; 6; 18
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Rain continues
It rained quite a bit in the past 12 hours or so, so my snowmobile routes were a bit muddy — and occupied by ATVs doing some kind of poker run this morning. As a result I went back to Sculpture Park, which was a good thing because the kiosk was down to the last brochure. I filled it up and zigzagged all over the park, avoiding the "hilly" spots for fear of slipping on wet ground.
Beautiful morning — 50 degrees or so and overcast — with a three or four families wandering around looking at the art. They seemed to be enjoying themselves. Probably watch movies this afternoon while cleaning house.
2; 12; 12; 12
Friday, May 24, 2019
Repeat performance
This is the gate about half a mile from the parking area. Someone ran into it earlier this spring, and someone else put a chain up to cover some of the damage. It's at least another mile to Keep Cool crossing.
Met a couple out walking their little dog on the return trip.
3; 10; 10; 10
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Trotting again
Feeling better after a month or so of walking a lot with Jazzy the corgi, so I went to the Sculpture park and ran around on the trails in there. Felt surprisingly good considering I hadn't run in more than a year (see post below).
This post represents three days of running — two at the park and one to Keep Cool Creek (above photo).
Conservatively the looping jogs around the Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild park were two miles apiece. One was drizzly, the other was sunny.
The third day (May 23) I went out to the snowmobile trails east of town and went all the way to the Keep Cool Creek crossing, a good mile and a half out. The picture above is that creek.
7; 7; 7; 7
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Back to the creek
This is a powerline that crosses the Keep Cool Creel trail before you get to the stranded footbridge. I just thought the sun on the wires was kind of cool.
Here's my breakfast guest. He's hanging around regularly and I'm pretty sure he's an immature one ... maybe a year.
The creek is not only going around the bridge but also going up the road where the creek is diverted.
I ran farther up the right fork today, so I'm calling it four.
I got a stress EKG on Thursday and go back on Monday for further testing (a little bit of blockage), and the doc said I should lay low through the weekend, so no more running until I get back on Tuesday.
4; 9.5; 46.5; 59.5
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Warmer; other direction
The Tall Man is back, saying howdy from Keep Cool Creek north of Lincoln. The weather is warming up so the creeks probably will go up, too (they've gone down a bit in thepast four or five days). According to TV news the crests should hit around Friday. I've been watching them very closely lately, so I should be able to see how accurate the TV folks are.
I went west again from the same parking area as yesterday (when I went east). Felt great.
This is a good view of the stranded footbridge over Keep Cool. No critters today
3.5; 5.5; 42.5; 55.5
Monday, May 14, 2018
Other direction (east)
At the beginning of today's run (to the east on the snowmobile trail) is what must have been hunters' gut pile ... now a bone yard.
Nothing is smelly, so it's probably been there for more than a year. Anyway, I went a good two miles east, and it's uphill all that way. I took an altimeter reading at the turnaround spot and it was 5,040. Down where I parked was 4,640, so a 400-foot climb.
This is the turnaround spot at the powerline crossing, the high point of the route.
Beautiful day, and there were elk tracks around but no critters.
This is the road along the way. Wet spots were a little slippery and reminded me of conditions in early April of 2016 when I wrecked me knee. Interestingly a month and a ahalf later.
4; 4; 38; 52
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